Report Drink Drivers

MrSinn

You dont have to have a loved one killed by a drunk driver before you decide to start reporting someone for drink driving
I think a lot of us know someone that does it,maybe it's you,but it has to be stopped.
I know people that only live 10 mins walk away from the pub but yet they decide to drive the car and drink,drink 4 or 5 pints and a couple of shorts,they talk about the Garda Síochána having "nothing better to do" other than to "catch soft targets" "having a quiet pint" "not doing any harm to anybody" I know that this is what they talk about because i serve them their beer.
The footpaths outside the pub is often packed with cars when the garda have come in at 1oc on a Saturday night/Sunday morn to ask people "are ye right there lads" garda then head off to the next pub to do the same,knowing that these cars belong to patrons in the pubs but they do f**kall about it,what's that about?
Working behind a bar in the country area is a tough enough life,starts off early in the night by greeting people,It ends up with you pushing them out the door,you listen to the crap talk in between,but thats your job so you do it.
Your jobs ends when you lock up!you do what others didn't do,drive home sober,happy days.
Not so,i was almost in a serious accident this week trying to avoid a car that approached me with his headlights on,half way over on my side of the road,I had to swerve to miss it and I ended up clipping a ESB pole causing €1200 worth of damage to the car because(and I have no doubt)of some lazy drunk b%$tard

Report all drink drivers!Dont ignore it!Dont post a thread here telling us how much the latest drink driving ad's have affected you without doing anything to improve the situation!Dont drive past a pub with a full car park without reporting that pub!Dont drink and drive!

LETS GET A LIST OF PUBS HERE THAT HAVE PLENTY OF CARS OUTSIDE OF THEM AT NIGHT TIME THEN LET SOME OF US REPORT THEM TO ANY OF THESE NUMBERS http://www.baker.ie/cgi-bin/htsearch2?config=angarda&method=or&format=builtin-long&sort=score&restrict=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.garda.ie&words=phone+numbers

skibum

What do you suggest, we take out our notebooks and pens, take down the reg numbers of all the cars in the pub car parks and ring the cops?

Don't get me wrong, I think drink drivers are selfish scum who should be taken off the road, and I have rung the cops while following behind pi55heads behind the wheel, but i think you are going the wrong way about tackling a serious problem.

ziggy

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tintinr35

i used to work in a pub and once i called the cops on this couple because they got into their car and they were both hammered, they used to do it the whole time and i just got pissed off, cops came down and arrested him!!! got what he deserved

MrSinn

skibum wrote:

What do you suggest, we take out our notebooks and pens, take down the reg numbers of all the cars in the pub car parks and ring the cops?

Don't get me wrong, I think drink drivers are selfish scum who should be taken off the road, and I have rung the cops while following behind pi55heads behind the wheel, but i think you are going the wrong way about tackling a serious problem.

Well i have made some suggestions,have you?
There is little or no point in reporting a car on the r451(wherever that may be)to the garda,we know this.Report a static car outside a pub waiting for its drunk owner to come out and try operate it.
You dont have to have any pen and pencil,dont most people have the number of the local garda on their mobile?
I dont expect things to change anytime soon,i know the law enforcement in this area is poor but if enough people were to keep reporting drink drivers-then we might at least expose the garda

MrSinn

tintinr35 wrote:

i used to work in a pub and once i called the cops on this couple because they got into their car and they were both hammered, they used to do it the whole time and i just got pissed off, cops came down and arrested him!!! got what he deserved

Thats me boy

lodgepole

ziggy67 wrote:

Mr Sinn, i commend your thinking but it is the Gards who aren't enforcing the law, until that changes then whats the point in reporting it?

Bollocks. I've reported a number of drunk drivers and witnessed first hand what the Gardai have done about it. It's a massive problem and one the people of this country should be assisting in changing. It's in our interests.

ziggy

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Enii

MrSinn wrote:

Report a static car outside a pub waiting for its drunk owner to come out and try operate it.

why would you report a static car outside a pub. There is no crime in driving to the pub. you don't know for sure if the person is going to drive the car home drunk.

I have no problem with drunks being reported for driving on the roads drunk, but come on are you serious in relation to the above?

ronbyrne2005

its so deeply ingrained in our culture. most guards drink drive at some time in their life,if they get caught they know they will be let off by colleagues unless they kill or injure someone.
im suprised more people arent killed by drunk drivers,most accidents seem to be speed related,speed and drink is the worst combination as we see every weekend night where young people tanked up crash killing themselves and others
a lot of the older "experienced" drink drivers arent that dangerous,they tend to drive slow enough and not drive too far from pub to house and mainly drive on quiet roads.
my father drinks(at least 5 pints) 3 times a week for last 20 years and he has never once been stopped or had an accident, thats 3000 times drink driving!!he should have been caught a long time a go but the gaurds arent doing their job but also the legislation doesnt allow them to stop random people and test them.

MrSinn

Enii wrote:

why would you report a static car outside a pub. There is no crime in driving to the pub. you don't know for sure if the person is going to drive the car home drunk.

I have no problem with drunks being reported for driving on the roads drunk, but come on are you serious in relation to the above?

I dont know anybody that comes into the pub where i work that does not drink a few and drive home,on the rare occasion that a man will bring his wife to the pub and she wont drink is the only time that a car leaves without a drunk driver behind the wheel and i have only noticed this with much older people

Cianos

Whatever way this argument is going, its good that the topic has been brought up. And the more people aware and thinking about the problem the better. Maybe as a result, there could be a propositon or a practical suggestion as to how to better the situation. Fair enough the OPs idea may not be the most realistic, but at least he is making suggestions. The more people doing this the better.

An idea I had is that maybe a non-police group could be employed to observe offending drivers. People who were clearly coming out of bars at 1am after a nights drinking were recorded by reg number and then reported to the Guards. Then the Guards could follow it up in some way. This way you are not spending Garda hours. Employing people in this way would probably be a fraction of the cost of an advertising campaign and if you are reaching the actual offenders then they are going to think twice the next time.

aidan_walsh

Enii wrote:

why would you report a static car outside a pub. There is no crime in driving to the pub. you don't know for sure if the person is going to drive the car home drunk.

I have no problem with drunks being reported for driving on the roads drunk, but come on are you serious in relation to the above?

He's obviously a huge fan of the designated driver scheme. Hell, lets report taxis where the driver goes in looking for the passenger too, he could be up to all sorts in there.

I'm off to get my black face paint!